Rick O’Shea launches on iOS and Android

London, UK – 22
nd November 2011 - YoYo Games, the leading
portal for user-generated game content, is pleased to announce that
Rick O’Shea, an innovative platform puzzler,
is released today, Tuesday 22
nd November, on the iOS and Android platforms.
Rick O’Shea is YoYo Games’ latest
title to be created using GameMaker, and it’s the first game
to be released as a freemium title.
Rick O’Shea follows in the footsteps of
previous gaming hits to be developed using GameMaker such as
Karoshi,
They Need To Be Fed and
Pollushot.

Rick O’Shea follows the career of Rick
O’Shea, a human cannonball at a circus who performs death
defying stunts for the crowd. Players must control Rick and steer
him around using cannons to avoid dangers such as timed spikes and
shark pools, all so that Rick can reach the exit of each level.
Each cannon is static so the player can only control the rotation
before firing our hero in the desired direction. Once fired Rick
will ricochet off ceilings, walls and floors until he reaches
another cannon or the exit.

Rick O’Shea features:

- Simple, intuitive single tap gameplay

- 120 fiendish and addictive levels to ricochet through

- Game Centre support on iOS

- 30 Achievements to unlock, and 12 mini game levels to find

- Download act 1 for free, with a further 4 acts to
“purchase and play”

Rick O’Shea is available to download, for
free, for iOS and Android devices and will include act 1. Three
downloadable content (DLC) packs will offer players the chance to
expand their ricocheting adventures, with packs one and two
containing two brand new acts, and pack three giving players eight
brand new characters to play with. Each DLC pack will cost USD$0.99
/ GBP£0.69 / EUR€0.79.

YoYo Games was founded in 2007 by a group of leading games and
entertainment industry executives including James North-Hearn (CEO,
Foundation9), Michel Cassius (ex-European marketing director,
Xbox) and Spencer Hyman(formerly COO, Last.FM). The company, headed
by CEO Sandy Duncan (ex-vice president of Xbox Europe), was created
to support the founders' belief that a new generation of games
development talent and devices was emerging and there was an
opportunity to incubate and showcase some of the very best of this
talent on these new and existing platforms.

YoYo Games is a leading publisher of mobile games on both IOS
and Android. It is the publisher of the top 5 hit game on Android
Market
They Need to be Fed and the award winning
Mr Karoshi. YoYo Games debuted in the top half of
the Develop100 list of the world's top games developers in 2011.
All of the games published by YoYo Games are developed using
GameMaker.

The free to use version of GameMaker, GameMaker: Lite is
downloaded more than 1 million times every year from the company's
website
www.yoyogames.com.

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